It's the same lightsaber. Same crystal, same Jedi, same weapon he built for himself during the Clone Wars, and carried all the way to the Death Star. But if you line up screenshots from Revenge of the Sith, the Kenobi show, and A New Hope side by side, you'd swear you were looking at three different …

By your go-to galactic blogger Levi G. When George Lucas sat down to create Star Wars in the 1970s, he wasn't just dreaming up spaceships and lightsabers. He was crafting a modern mythology—and he had some help from a professor named Joseph Campbell. The Universal Story Pattern Campbell …